Louisville Housing Authority Agenda and Packet 2012 03 13

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Matters from Members of the Public Jim Sprung, resident of Lydia Morgan, said he received a 5 foot tall pile of snow on his back door when we had the recent blizzard. He wants to know who chooses the snow removal firm and the name of the last company to do the work at Lydia. In an emergency, he couldn't get out his door. Frank said he will take back his concern about the snow being behind the doors. Our maintenance department contracts with other companies and he signs all snow removal contracts.* He will have the maintenance supervisor talk to Mr. Sprung. Any time you have a problem, you should make a call to the maintenance department. Every year we grapple with the snow removal issue and it's incredibly expensive. It impacts the operating budget very dramatically. Toni said that she has the same problem at Regal Square. After the last big snow storm, the snow removal company blocked all the cars in. The company refused to plow the biggest lot and people were stranded for days: Jackie Smith said they shoveled up right up to her door. She was not able to get out until her son came to dig her out for a doctor appointment. 2012 Comprehensive Platt — Core Values Discussion Gavin McMillan; City of Louisville Planning Department, gave a brief update on the 2012 Louisville Comprehensive Plan; the guiding document for goals and strategic plan for the next 25 years. It is done every 4 years.. They are in the beginning stages of this update and are going around to all the boards and commissions within the city of Louisville to figure out what we need to focus on, what are our core values of the community and how they apply to this document. He gave the .board information in the packet regarding the current vision statement and would like to take that statement and boil it down to the top 8 points that are our core values as a community, what's important to us, and what we are going to `address. He discussed dive rse housing stock, all income levels, and life -stages. Walt said he didn't see anything. in the packet regarding seniors and single level living. That's very :important to seniors. .•The•real •key is single level .living. Gavin said that the current population of Louisville is 18,500 ( +1). The statement that we are looking at is "a family-oriented community of no more than 23,000 residents, a small town atmosphere with a progressive outlook ".• The 23;000 number is a point of the current comp plan that isa good discussion piece. Walt takes objection to that number. In the future if light rail comes in, or the community character changes, there may be more multiple housing units and there may be a need for this The character of the city is the most important thing to preserve. Frank said you have to get a good assessment of what the community wants to hear; educating the coinrnunity about what's happening demographically and what are the issues. If you say you want a small town feel but the population is dropping, what is that going to do to your excellence and education? If you're seeing your child population drop, what is that going to do to your housing stock diversity? Statements won't change the outcome or trend. If you have a trend, do you want to reverse it? Gavin said that we are going to see some changes in philosophy and priorities in the community. He said we will be back to you at the end of the summer. We are going to have a community meeting on the 12th 4